Friends Life announces senior protection team in preperation for product launch

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Friends Life has announced its senior protection management team which will control the single protection proposition to be launched later this year.

Jamie McIver has been given the position of sales director for individual protection and will be responsible for all aspects of sales activity across that business.

Iain Mallon is now head of individual protection strategy and new proposition implementation and will be responsible for development of strategy and implementation of new deals.

Steve Casey has been handed the role of head of marketing and proposition development and will implement the marketing strategy while also delivering marketing support to all distribution partners (intermediary and single tie or controlled distribution partners).

And Mike Taylor has been added as chief underwriter.

Steve Payne, who has previously been named as managing director of protection, said he was confident the team was targeting a market-leading position with the new proposition.

Payne was interviewed for the March issue of COVER magazine.

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